University of Delaware

NEW LONDON -- Vice President Joe Biden told graduates at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy commencement ceremony Wednesday morning that they will face new responsibilities in a changing and dangerous world. "This is not your father's Coast Guard," Biden...

The University of Findlay has named a vice president for academic affairs. Darin Fields, the vice president for academic affairs, faculty dean, and English professor at West Virginia's Bethany College, will take over the Findlay position in July. He...

Graham B. Spanier, the former president of Pennsylvania State University who was forced to resign in 2011, was the highest-paid public university president in the country that year, according to a report from the Chronicle of Higher Education released...

Notre Dame men's basketball coach Mike Brey puts the fight against cancer in terms any fan can understand. "We've got this disease on the run a little bit," Brey said at Saturday night's Coaches vs. Cancer BasketBall at the Hilton Scranton and...

If you're encountering difficulties figuring out where Tom Apple is coming from, look at where he came from. That would be the University of Delaware, home of the Blue Hens ... the Blue Hens who play a level below the University of Hawaii, in the...

Herbalife would seem to have a lot to talk about with its investors, but you'd never know it from Thursday's annual shareholder meeting in Beverly Hills. It lasted less than 15 minutes. Executives didn't address claims raised by hedge fund manager...

Nancy W. Brickhouse has been at the University of Delaware for her entire academic career and has served as faculty, dean and now interim provost. But in applying for the job of chief academic officer at the University of Kentucky, a much bigger school,...

Jose Luis Bermudez sees much to admire about the University of Kentucky, including the lofty goals the school has set. UK is much stronger than it is perceived, and becoming a Top 20 public university, the standard set nearly a decade ago, is "an...

Nearly 60 years after she first stood in front of a classroom, my mother will retire from teaching Tuesday. She began in 1954 with a freshman English section at Miami University in Ohio where she was a graduate student. She went on to teach nursery...

The men who play baseball and soccer at Towson University, run track at the University of Delaware and wrestle, swim or golf at any number of other colleges all heard the same reason when their teams were cut: Title IX. To meet the federal law's goal of...

PHILADELPHIA - With all his talk about sugar cane, corn, casaba and fungi, Jeff White sounded like someone with a food obsession. But the ingredients he enumerated during an interview had to do with manufacturing, not a meal. His is an unconventional...

VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: Villanova University named the following students to the dean's list for the fall 2012 semester: Ava Calvano, from Forest Hill, pursuing a bachelor's degree in the College of Engineering; Chelsea Chu, from Forest Hill, studying...